The GRID-Arendal Maps & Graphics Library is an on-going project to collect and catalogue all graphic products that have been prepared for publications and web-sites from the last 15 years in a wide range of themes related to environment and sustainable development. There are currently 3075 graphics available in the database.

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Africa’s urban centres are currently growing at an annual rate that is the fastest compared to other regions. The urban expansion is expected to continue, with cities like Abuja and Ouagadougou expecting very high growth...

Wetlands are essential in providing and storing freshwater, but today more than half of South Africa’s wetlands have been destroyed or degraded and it is estimated that by 2025 South Africa will suffer from water scarcit...

Biodiversity is the basis for any development; it is the
natural capital, the stock of natural ecosystems, which
provide services for any human activity. As pointed
out above, the main immediate threat to biodiversity...

Converting land for biofuel production can cause
biodiversity impacts in the short-term, but such
conversion also aects the future resilience of natural
ecosystems. In an extreme case, complete deforestation
reduces...

Studies indicate that global bioenergy use is approximately 10 percent of the global energy mix, with a growth rate of 1.3 percent per year. Future projections for the supply of bioenergy are shown in the figure. The ana...

Biofuels pose several environmental and social
risks. Therefore, to be truly a part of the green
economy, biofuels need to comply with a set of
safeguards along the entire production chain. Any
bioenergy development ...

Since Asia comprises a large portion of the World’s popula-
tion, and more than 40% of all the foods in the world occur
in Asia, a large number of people are affected by disasters
(Fig. 14). More than 40% of the peo...

Seasonal fooding can occur along all the major watersheds
in the Himalayan region (Figure 11–14). The largest problems
occur in food prone areas with high population densities.
This includes parts of northeast India, ...

Khazar (formerly Cheleken) is a town of 10 000 people
(once 16 000), located on the Cheleken peninsula on
the Caspian shore. Iron bromide (FeBr2) production
started at the Cheleken plant in 1940, followed by iodine
p...

The illicit bushmeat trade involves a series of underlying socio-economic factors, but leads, with rising population densities, to local depletions of wildlife species, and increasingly inside protected areas.